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Scholarly Publishing
Predatory Publishing: what is it and how to avoid it.
October 2015UQ Library Scholarly Communication and Digitisation Services
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Scholarly Publishing
Overview
• Context: changes in scholarly communication• Predatory publishing: why, what, and how• Identifying the predators – avoiding the pitfalls• Tools for finding reputable journals
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Scholarly Publishing
Game Changer
Context: changes in scholarly publishing
eJournalsOpen Access RepositoriesHyperlinked referencesCitation trackingScholarly BlogsTwitterSocial Media
Open Access
https://101innovations.wordpress.com/about-1/
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Rise of Open Access
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment (SPARC)More access means more potential for impact
Not just those with a UQ Login!
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Context: Publish or perish
Why publish?• Disseminate new
knowledge• Increase the impact and
visibility of your research• Establish/build your
reputation• Be visible or vanish!
30 – 60%Rejection rate
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What is predatory publishing?
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• Sends spam invitations to students and academics
• Editorial Board either non-existent or same person is
named as Editor of multiple journals
• Name of the journal does not reflect its origin (or does
not reveal its location)
• Name of journal is VERY broad (to attract more content)
• Grammatical errors on website
How to spot a predator:Questionable practices of predatory journals
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Questionable practices of predatory journals
• Publishes pseudo-science articles
• Launches with fleet of empty journals
• No value-add services such as reference linking
• Not indexed by genuine indexes such as Scopus or Web
of Science
• Misleading information about having an ‘impact factor’
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Examples of scam emails
This is from Frontiers of Engineering Mechanics Research (FEMR). It is a great honor writing to you. We found a paper you published. It’s an excellent paper which is well matched with the Focus & Scope of FEMR. Title: Erratum: Theory of thin-film, narrowband, linear-polarization rejection filters with superlattice structure (Optics Communications (2006) 268:1 (182-188) DOI:10.1016/j.optcom.2006.07.006)
To promote the communications in the area of engineering mechanics, we are now sending our earnest invitation for you to submit new paper to FEMR. If you are interested in it, please submit your paper online, Website: http://www.academicpub.org/femr/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx
If you are interested in being our reviewer, please send us your CV (including your title, affiliation, department, research interests, qualification, email, etc.). We appreciate the cooperation with you and look forward you hearing from you in the near future. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Best regards,
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http://weeklyscience.org/default.aspxExamples of journal websites
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Scholarly Publishing
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Editorial board for each of its 36 journals is : “Chief Editor, Council for Innovative Research http://www.cirworld.com, United States.”
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‘Sting’ operation exposes fake peer review
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60/suppl/DC1
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Impact upon the Researcher• Longer term reputation sacrificed for immediate gains – no
academic gain (no/poor quality peer review or academic rigor)
• Permanent ? on your academic reputation• Even if your research is sound, it will likely be disregarded by
the academic community if published in a predatory journal• Waste of your research funding – may be held accountable by
your funding agency
Authors want their work to be read and cited - publish in journals that you know authors in your discipline are reading!
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How to catch a predator and avoid publishing pitfalls
Learn to identify and evaluate and select suitable publishing outlets
http://guides.library.uq.edu.au/getting-published
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Where to publish: journal evaluation.
Identify list of peer-reviewed journal titles Ulrich's
AccessHow will you make your publication available open access?UQ Open Access Policy
Impact/prestige• Journal impact factors• Predatory Publishers
Aims/scope• Discipline area• Publishes work you cite• Audience
Likelihood of acceptance for ECRs.
READ journal publishing guidelines
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Useful tools for journal evaluation
• Jeffrey Beall’s List and blog• Characteristics of a predatory publisher• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)• Ulrich’s Database of Journals – indicates peer review (Ulrichsweb)• Journal Citation Reports (JCRweb) - impact factors. Search in
Database Gateway
• UQ Client Services Librarian• UQ Library Scholarly Publishing Service: [email protected]
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Book publishing - Theses
• “ LAP Lambert’s real plan finally became clear: They make money not by selling arcane tomes to readers, but by selling the books back to their authors after they’ve already signed away the rights.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/lap_lambert_academic_publishing_my_trip_to_a_print_content_farm.html
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Scholarly Publishing
Publishing a scholarly monograph
• In some disciplines, the scholarly monograph is a common format for publishing research findings
• Academics in these disciplines can also fall prey to ‘vanity presses’ masquerading as reputable academic book publishers.
• A list of ‘Print-on-demand publishers’, self-publishing ”Vanity presses” and other non-traditional publishers has been compiled.
• This guide to Vanity/Subsidy publishers includes a useful list of ‘warning signs’ .
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Before submitting a manuscript
Ask yourself• Is this a journal you read?• Is your supervisor familiar with this journal?• Is it indexed by Scopus or Web of Science?• Is the journal or publisher named on the
‘Predatory Publisher List’? http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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Supporting OA at UQ – consider ‘green’
UQ eSpaceUQ’s official digital space for:
• the research outputs
• the research data
of staff and students of
The University of Queensland
Post-print
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References: Crawford, W (2011). ALA Editions Special Reports : Open Access: What you need to know now. Chicago, Il. American Library Association Editions.